{"id":145913,"date":"2025-06-20T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/145913\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:46:10","slug":"are-the-broncos-poised-to-exceed-expectations-again-this-season-inside-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/145913\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Broncos poised to exceed expectations again this season? | Inside Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Frank Schwab and Charles Robinson debate the outlook for the Denver Broncos under a second season of Sean Payton’s leadership. Hear the full conversation on \u201cInside Coverage\u201d – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> or wherever you listen.<\/a><\/p>\n

View more<\/p>\n

Video Transcript<\/p>\n

Yeah, there, there’s some plexiglass principle involved with the Broncos here.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

They rose so much last year on defense with Knicks that there almost has to be some pullback, I guess, but how could you not say this is a rise?<\/p>\n

Like the Broncos, I was way too low on them last year.<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, because I didn’t really believe in Knicks coming in and The 6th quarterback drafted in his own draft class and and being a star right away, but he was, and the defense was far better than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n

And the offensive line came together like crazy.<\/p>\n

That’s one of the best offensive lines in football now.<\/p>\n

So everything looks good on paper for the Broncos and again, it comes down to I underestimated Sean Payton.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

I, I just As you pointed out, to Rob, like how, how many times have I ever gone under blankety blank wins, Sean Payton said.<\/p>\n

So, uh, you just look and you say, yeah, Sean Payton is the floor to this team.<\/p>\n

They’re never going to be bad with Sean Payton, and they’re probably going to be pretty good.<\/p>\n

So everything on paper looks good for them.<\/p>\n

You worry about a little bit of Pullback defense, especially improvement like that isn’t always sticky from year to year.<\/p>\n

So you wonder, like Patrick Sertan’s not gonna win defensive player of the Year again, right?<\/p>\n

Like that was a crazy season for that group.<\/p>\n

Can they still be a top 10 unit though?<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Yeah, probably.<\/p>\n

And again, the offensive line gives that that that offense a really good foundation.<\/p>\n

It’s a very good team.<\/p>\n

And as long as you have Sean Payton, you’re gonna be pretty good.<\/p>\n

So yeah, it’s a rise for me.<\/p>\n

The Broncos are a good team and they should be for a while, especially if I don’t think and even if Bonis does regress a little bit, which could happen.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen that sophomore slump.<\/p>\n

I, I don’t think he’s going away.<\/p>\n

I, I think this is the guy for the Broncos the next few years and he’s gonna be, he’s gonna have a really good career.<\/p>\n

I, I, I might, I might be a repeat, by the way.<\/p>\n

Now, I mean, I might be, cause they played over their head.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

I kind of felt like they exceeded expectations last year.<\/p>\n

Now that I hear Frank kind of walk through it again.<\/p>\n

I’m kind of like maybe they’re just a repeat, you know, which is not bad.<\/p>\n

I don’t think it’s a bad thing if they would be a repeat team.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s kind of where I am.<\/p>\n

I think Frank talked me out of the rise and it’s the division like I can’t get them higher division.<\/p>\n

I can’t.<\/p>\n

I love the Chargers.<\/p>\n

Everybody can be so to go.<\/p>\n

Well, everybody can be because like, like, it’s the best defense in the division.<\/p>\n

I, I, I, I can’t go down on the Broncos.<\/p>\n

It’s the best defense in the division, so I’m, I’m rise on the Broncos.<\/p>\n

Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, Frank Schwab and Charles Robinson debate the outlook for the Denver Broncos under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[12702,232,2501,231,258,2426,7,2502,2504,6,1813,5098],"class_list":{"0":"post-145913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-apple-podcasts","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-charles-robinson","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-denverbroncos","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-frank-schwab","16":"tag-jason-fitz","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sean-payton","19":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114717890173004805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}